James Stuart Park:
Geraniums, circa 1890
Framed (ref: 8011)
Signed

Tags: James Stuart Park oil flowers still lifes A Hanging Garden The Alan M. Fortunoff Collection

Provenance: Craibe Angus, The Fine Art Society, The Fortunoff Collection

Park specialised in painting arrangements of flowers, usually agains a dark background. Here, the thickness of the paint and the contrast between the brilliant red and white of the flower petals and the dark brown of the background is incredibly striking.

A similar painting of Geraniums is in the Kirkcaldy Art Gallery: